by Art Petty | Jun 21, 2010 | Leadership
It’s often difficult to gauge whether your leadership practices are helping improve your team’s situation. I encourage leaders to look for these signs as evidence that things are heading in the proper direction: The Seven Indicators of the Effective Work...
by Art Petty | May 28, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Project Management
It’s increasingly likely that you will spend a good deal of your professional time working on temporary teams. It’s also likely that you will experience a fair amount of frustration and even team failure along the way. Most organizations have yet to meet a problem...
by Art Petty | Oct 21, 2008 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change
It’s not secret that complaining about the boss is part of the culture of many teams and organizations. The person in charge is an easy target and a certain amount of healthy griping about the boss may be cathartic for his or her subordinates. It creates a common...
by Art Petty | May 18, 2008 | Leadership, Project Management
I recently conducted a leadership workshop for a group of technical professionals at an industry conference, and as always, I walked away from the session with a couple of insights gained from the input of the participants. One that surprised me was that after...
by Art Petty | Mar 20, 2008 | Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
Traditional strategic planning approaches often fail to deliver the results that firms require to jump start growth or pull out of a sustained decline. Legacy approaches emphasize a periodic focus on strategy—often an annual refresh against a long-range...
